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DESATURASE‐2, ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, AND SEXUAL ISOLATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

DESATURASE‐2, ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, AND SEXUAL ISOLATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER Evolution, 60(3), 2006, pp. 626–627 DESATURASE-2, ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, AND SEXUAL ISOLATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER 1,2 1,3 JERRY A. COYNE AND SUSANNAH ELWYN Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 E-mail: [email protected] Received January 3, 2006. In a previous paper (Coyne and Elwyn 2006), we repeated berg et al. (2006) repeated some of their earlier temperature- environmental stress experiments in Drosophila melanogaster tolerance experiments and also failed to replicate their results that were originally conducted by Greenberg et al. (2003). of two years earlier. They suggested that the failure to rep- In their study, Greenberg et al. used targeted gene replace- licate earlier results reflected genetic change due to popu- ment to construct lines having different alleles of the desa- lation bottlenecks that had occurred between 2003 and 2005 turase-2 (desat2) locus—a gene involved in synthesis of cu- in the transgenic lines. Greenberg et al. therefore appear to ticular hydrocarbons. They found that different alleles had propose that a substantial effect of desat2 allele replacement different effects on flies’ responses to cold and starvation on stress tolerance has been completely obscured by presum- stress: carriers of the African and Caribbean allele (ds2 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Evolution Oxford University Press

DESATURASE‐2, ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, AND SEXUAL ISOLATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Coyne, Jerry A.; Elwyn, Susannah
Evolution , Volume 60 (3) – Jan 1, 2006
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Evolution, 60(3), 2006, pp. 626–627 DESATURASE-2, ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, AND SEXUAL ISOLATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER 1,2 1,3 JERRY A. COYNE AND SUSANNAH ELWYN Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 E-mail: [email protected] Received January 3, 2006. In a previous paper (Coyne and Elwyn 2006), we repeated berg et al. (2006) repeated some of their earlier temperature- environmental stress experiments in Drosophila melanogaster tolerance experiments and also failed to replicate their results that were originally conducted by Greenberg et al. (2003). of two years earlier. They suggested that the failure to rep- In their study, Greenberg et al. used targeted gene replace- licate earlier results reflected genetic change due to popu- ment to construct lines having different alleles of the desa- lation bottlenecks that had occurred between 2003 and 2005 turase-2 (desat2) locus—a gene involved in synthesis of cu- in the transgenic lines. Greenberg et al. therefore appear to ticular hydrocarbons. They found that different alleles had propose that a substantial effect of desat2 allele replacement different effects on flies’ responses to cold and starvation on stress tolerance has been completely obscured by presum- stress: carriers of the African and Caribbean allele (ds2

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